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GUEST SOLAR ECLIPSE ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Last updated: 8 November 2005

Some ETX users have sent me examples of their astrophotography. If you have some examples you would like included here please send me a description of how you made the astrophotos and a copy of the images as GIF or JPEG files (due to internet email gateway issues, please send only one image file per message). Send to etx@me.com. Alternatively, if you have created your own web page with your examples please let me know and I'll include a link to your site.

Submitted by: Paul King (Kingy97@o2.co.uk) [8 Nov 05]
Patial Eclipse photos from Rusthall, England (51.1330N, 0.2370E) Sony P150 Digital 7.3MP camera.

Submitted by: Antonio herranz (916881138@telefonica.net) [16 Oct 05]
etx-70 sony camera photos digital

Submitted by: Denis JOYE (denisjoye@hotmail.com) [12 Oct 05]
Here is a page with eclipse pictures captured on october 3rd with my ETX90 : djoye.chez.tiscali.fr/Eclipse_05-10-03_eng.html
Submitted by: Mircea Malarski (mircea.malarski@onlinehome.de) [6 Oct 05]
if you are interested, here some pictures from the eclipse Oct. 3, taken in Madrid. The images from 10:53 to 11:09 are takten with an EXT90 with an 40mm superview Ocular using a Canon S2IS. On the other image the shadows forming rings are nice to see.

Submitted by: Lars Helmin (larshelmin@mac.com) [6 Oct 05]
I had my un-modified Uni-Brain web cam put in the 26mm eyepiece of my ETX-90 and took some pictures of the solar eclipse as seen from southern Sweden. I have posted timelapse movie of the first half of the ecplise here, homepage.mac.com/larshelmin/iMovieTheater62.html Clouds came during the second half and typically left just as the ecplise ended

Submitted by: Dave Adriance (dadriance@alumni.umass.edu) [3 Oct 05]
Here's a couple of eclipse-related shots taken today from our residence here in Nairobi - feel free to post them on the site if you think they would be of interest. When we set up the ETX-125 out in the driveway I put on the solar filter and made sure to the point the right-angle viewfinder off to the side. Only after locating the sun did I realize that not only could we look at the eclipse through the eyepiece, but the viewfinder also projected a perfect real-time image on the wall next to the scope... very handy for all the folks who had come over for a look! One image shows the telescope setup - you can make out the image projected against the wall. Other image is a closeup of the projection, taken a few minutes before maximum eclipse here, which occurred at 11:22 UT.

Submitted by: Mark Mathosian (mmathosian@comcast.net) [14 Apr 05]
Here is a collage of the eclipse from two photos. The eerie red color of the background was the results of shooting a digital image through a pair of solar glasses. The eclipse was through my ETX90.

Submitted by: GONZALO GRANER (g_graner@hotmail.com) [11 Apr 05]
Here is a photo of the solar eclipse of 8 April 2005 from Caracas-Venezuela. The kit I used was as follows: ETX70, Scopetronix solar filter, Meade's LPI and Autostar Suite software.

Submitted by: Robert Welsh (welro@earthlink.net) [11 Apr 05]
Here are three pictures from the Solar Eclipse on April 7th 2005, taken from my back yard in Harlingen Texas. We had a forty percent coverage. All photos taken from my ETX 125 using a Canon Digital Rebel with a scopetronic Digapt All were color corrected, using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 and reduced in size I shoot in RAW format for the actual originals. I have included one original( put into jpeg format) for comparison. Heavy cloud cover came in during shooting, part of the reason for Solar 3 to look hazy. Solar one was the first shot I took that day and out of 60 plus photos it was the best. Great site, truly it has a life of its own. A true testament to its founder.
Solar 1: 26mm Plossi: ISO of 400: Shutter speed of 1/60th: Time 4:18 pm CDT Solar 2: 32mm Plossi: ISO of 800: Shutter speed of 1/250th: Time 5:08 pm CDT Solar 3: 32mm Plossi: ISO of 800: Shutter speed of 1/250th: Time 5:13 pm CDT Solar org- original of Solar 1
Submitted by: mmathosian@comcast.net [11 Apr 05]
Here's photo one of the solar eclipse from Naples, Fl., shot with my ETX90. Note the sunspot.